Diocese of Montreal rents rectory to witch

Since publishing this article, I received an email from the person renting the rectory. It says, in part:

Yes, I am a witch by faith, and yes, I rent an office space at the Rectory. What I do there is tutoring, and offer some small spiritual services to a small group of people. We are an interfaith group. The Church itself is Anglican, and friendly, but not involved in my personal activities, or that of my business partner Scarlet. Further, a lot of what Scarlet is quoted as saying in the original article, was taken out of context from a conversation between her and the writer.

Since the original article has been deleted, I have removed the quote from it below and also, at the request of my email correspondent, have removed the name of the parish involved.

An Anglican church which shall remain nameless in the Diocese of Montreal prides itself on being, “an open-hearted, welcoming, inclusive church.” It is so inclusive, it is renting office space in its rectory to a witch.

Both church and rectory are wheelchair and broomstick accessible.

New police guidelines on how to arrest a witch

In summary, if you don’t want to be incarcerated in a re-education camp by the diversity Gestapo, don’t. Arrest a Christian instead.

From here:

Usually, police officers take a pretty dim view if they stumble upon anyone who is blindfolded, naked and tied by their hands.

But tonight is Halloween and the boys in blue have been told not to throw the spellbook at gaudy-painted witches and their rituals.

Officers have been given a 300-page ‘diversity handbook’ with a list of dos and don’ts when approaching  followers of a range of religions from atheism to Zoroastrianism.

The guidance includes a ban on touching a witch’s Book Of Shadows which contains their spells and handling their ceremonial dagger.

And the online handbook advises officers not to jump to conclusions if  they come across a bizarre pagan ritual.

It says: ‘Some ceremonies include a blindfolded , naked participant whose hands may be bound. This is in accordance with ritual and has the full consent of the participant.’

Here’s one such willing participant in pagan revelries pictured before the blindfold and handcuffs come out: